when you say 'actual figures' which figures do you have in mind? of course i haven't counted the bodies personally, but it seems that different sources agree on the body count so with the lack of other information i assume it to be correct.
As to why would they bomb them - I'd say because they are to dumb to distinguish between the wedding and a pack of Taliban fighters.
It's kind hard to get out of the way of rocket when you don't even know it's been fired until it hits you.
i guess the main reason why civilian casualties are so high is because Yanks don't have any regard for other people's lives, so they fire at anything they deem suspicious without second thoughts.
By "getting out of the way" I mean; move away from the area because there is a war on, and we might get killed.
But they seem to be oblivious to this and simply keep on living life as normal, and then wonder why they get blown up. I'd be packing up and getting the hell outta there, well before the sounds of the US tanks could be heard; wouldn't you?
To say that the Yanks have no regard for people's lives is at best, very uninformed.
They are very generous and warm people from my experience; mostly like you and me.
Having said that, I reckon if I was a soldier in a stupid, senseless and useless war, watching my fellow soldiers getting blown apart by road-side bombs, and watching suicide bombers blow up buses full of children and innocent people, I'd find it very hard to not pull the trigger if I knew I could take out 20 or 50 bad guys in a town.
The problem over there is that the bad guys hide among the innocent (who won't leave the area) and taunt the Yanks into attacking.
If the Yanks don't attack, then the bad guys simply continue with their little sniper missions and the whole thing draws out for decades and decades.- just like Vietnam and others.
War is not fought anymore in uniforms with your team on one side of the field and my team on the other. The Yanks still do (fight in uniforms), but their enemies don't.
Now, everyone on their side is a bomb - disguised as women, children, old men etc. The enemy is invisible and paranoia (amongst US soldiers) is at dangerous levels.
You can't have you cake and eat it; if you want to hide in amongst the civilians and dress like them, then don't complain when the civilians get killed, and get the civilians out of there in the first place.
I'll bet the bad guys don't go around knocking on the doors in town and say; "hey, we're about to have a big war with the Yanks, so you innocent civilians better get outta here for your own safety, and we'll stay here completely exposed and fight them".
